Vacancies

Lifestyle Co-ordinator Bank

Job Summary

Help our residents maintain active and independent lives through the creation and delivery of individualised activity plans based on their interests, abilities and life experience.

Full time, occasional weekend and evening work required.

Key Responsibilities

To build friendships with our residents that help them adjust to life in a care home

Work with residents, their friends and family members, to build individual lifestyle histories and, using these, create ongoing plans in our electronic resident records, ensuring these are updated daily to evidence delivery

On a monthly basis review the plan with the resident and relatives and adjust if necessary

Create a weekly schedule of meaningful occupation for each resident, personalised to their likes, dislikes, needs and abilities, helping them to try new things and continue to take part in the hobbies and activities that make them who they are

Create and maintain a schedule of group activities tailored to residents to run alongside one-to-one sessions, enabling residents to take part in communal activities as well as individual hobbies as per their wishes

Update the resident’s personalised diary on a weekly basis with details of the activities they’ve undertaken, including photos, comments and feedback, that can be kept by residents as a record of what they have achieved as well as shared with their friends, family and the home team

Build relationships with relatives, friends and advocates in order make sure you understand the person, and that the relatives understand how you are supporting the resident

To build relationships with the local community , inviting them into the home to take part or run events and help residents maintain their hobbies

To establish and run a ‘Friends of’ the home - a group of relatives, friends and neighbours from the community who are keen to be active participants in the life of the home

Develop strong and continuing relationships with colleagues to enable the sharing of ideas and information, ensuring you are all working as a team to provide a safe and fulfilling experience within the home for every resident

Enable our residents to stay in touch with friends and family by visits, phone, Skype, letters and email

Support our residents to make trips outside of the home, encouraging relatives and friends to join in, as well as building links with local groups to encourage them into the home, facilitating the position of the home as part of the local community

Actively seek feedback on the activity provision in the home, including running a resident forum and in house customer satisfaction programmes

To attend all statutory and mandatory training as required by the Company in order to fulfil your duties

To attend appropriate training courses and/or programmes to enhance personal and professional knowledge and skills

Our dedicated care team at Davers Court focuses on enabling residents to get the very most out of every day, whatever their needs and abilities.

When your loved one joins us at Davers Court we want to get to know them and your family. We then use what we’ve learned to put together a personalised care plan that will meet their individual needs. We find out what their likes and dislikes are, what food they enjoy and what hobbies and interests they have.

Care UK is committed to ensuring that it employs people with the right mix of talent, skills and potential and will assess every applicant fairly regardless of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, responsibilities for dependents, age, physical/mental disability or offending background. Having a criminal record will not necessarily prevent you from working with us, it will depend on the nature of the role and background of any offence.